A race announcer keeps the crowd abreast of the action over a public address system.
In fact, it's impossible to even hear the race announcer from here, so Will is wearing headphones tuned to a scanner that has 200 stations.
Before a run, race announcers usually advise spectators to cover or plug their ears.
He has set the morning line odds at Churchill since 1974, and was the race announcer there from 1977 to 1997.
Blase himself appears in the movie as the race announcer.
In 2009, live video coverage and audio of the race announcers was added to the site without a fee.
The only thing missing was the monotonous voice of a race announcer.
A Mexican runner ended up singing his country's anthem into the race announcer's microphone.
Soon the boats, as the race announcer described it, were "stuck together like a piece of bungee."
Once, while enjoying a rare lead, the boat's bowman tumbled over the side and vanished, prompting the race announcer to cry, "There he goes!"